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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men

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